Derek Wanless – Gordon Brown’s most trusted banker – is due to speak at a fringe meeting at the LibDem conference on “Caring Choices”. One of the other speakers will be Vince Cable, who yesterday railed at the “collapse of Northern Rock; a product of greed and reckless gambling by overpaid executives”.

Will Derek Wanless, the chair of Northern Rock’s audit and risk committees, show his face in public? Or will he go missing, like Gordon?